“Pentru Familie” association says we do not need antidiscrimination law

“Moldova does not need an antidiscrimination law because we now have 75 antidiscrimination normative documents,” consider representatives of the public association “Pentru Familie” (“For Family”). According to them, the message is addressed to the country’s executive and all the supporters of this bill, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a news conference on May 15, the association’s deputy head Vitalie Marian said that there are enough laws in Moldova for defending the interests of certain social groups, but practically none of them works properly. “The antidiscrimination law does not aim to protect the interests of everyone because they are officially defended by a multitude of other laws. This law is designed to safeguard only the interests of the homosexuals and this is evident,” he stated. Vitalie Marian considers that the Law on the Equality of Chances is promoted and supported with the homosexuals’ money that is in large amounts, not by the Government’s intention to liberalize the visa regime. The association’s representatives say the last changes made to the law were not discussed with the general public, as the law requires. They were decided in the office of Moldova’s Head of Government. “The removal of the phrase ‘sexual orientation’ from Article 1 and its inclusion in the article about anti-discrimination in the area of labor seems to be a concession and a compromise on the part of the bill’s authors, but this is not so. This is a proof of cynicism and lack of respect towards the people,” said the association’s jurist Irina Batin. The members of the association call on the state institutions and whole society with civic position to reject the bill on the equality of chances (the draft antidiscrimination law), to efficiently apply the existing provisions on antidiscrimination and to stop provoking and dividing society by imposing foreign ‘norms’.